Ever feel you're too picky?

[handscombmp]

Got his feeling recently that i'm a bit picky. Yet me give you a couple of examples.

A great one for me is when it comes to movies/tv shows. I have mine all backed up so i can watch them all from a nice interface (mediaportal). I spend hours striving to get the best picture from the blu rays my deciding how to store them.
Yet if i wasn't so picky i could go onto itunes and have movies download nice and easily with tv shows on there just after they've aired. And i could easily put them on my ipod and take them with me.

And then another example is with games. I spent about £1000 on my pc so i could play game on the highest setting.
But i could just use my Xbox 360 and admit it wouldn't be as good. I could then get a macbook air which would do all the pc tasks i want and be great for me to travel with (saving me buying a laptop)

Just my thoughts but my life could be easier at times i think

[jim]

Just a bit!

I refuse point-blank to buy DVDs of films any more. Of TV programmes - that's fine, but not films. Not really sure why.

I also have to meticulously rename all of my backups so that their filenames follow a specific template. Any deviation from that template means I have to go through and rename it all.

I don't really carry much of this through into normal life, it's just in terms of PC-based stuff.

[Allen]

I'm very picky when it comes to certain things... like right now I'm holding myself back from pointing out your spelling mistakes in the title!

It's not that I'm a "grammar nazi" or whatever, I just want things to be right. I hate it when I make mistakes though and do whatever I can to correct them ASAP.

That's being too picky, right?

[handscombmp]

I'm very picky when it comes to certain things... like right now I'm holding myself back from pointing out your spelling mistakes in the title!

It's not that I'm a "grammar nazi" or whatever, I just want things to be right. I hate it when I make mistakes though and do whatever I can to correct them ASAP.

That's being too picky, right?

I saw the title was wrong in the email saying someone had posted and i thought bet someone will pick up on it. I was just to slow.

[peterb]

Picky or perfectionist? And when does the pursuit of perfection become obsessive? Is "good enough" good enough? (discuss! )

I don't know - I suppose it depends on what process or object perfection is being sought - and what matters to the individual.

In system terms (say) a sound system - is it worth striving for perfection (whatever that is) when the limiting factor is probably my ears?

I don't like seeing labels stuck on at odd angles, I like symmetry, or something that is pleasing to my eyes - but if I spend 30 seconds getting it right, that is probably normal - if I spent an hour removing and replacing it until it is just 'so' - I'd probably consider that obsessive!

(BTW - I agree with the comment about the title spelling - but I am dreadful at typos - and often I will go back to a thread I have posted and correct them, even though there may be other posts since then! - and I can be a bit of a grammar nazi)

[dave87]

Edit: Mod's could you change the title after may major fail on spelling

Think I got the jist of what you meant?

[peterb]

<---snip I was just to slow.

or even too slow! (and now every typo I make will be picked up - and it will serve me right! )

[handscombmp]

Think I got the jist of what you meant?

What is wrong with me tonight. I can't type to save my life.

[stevie lee]

<snip>

(BTW - I agree with the comment about the title spelling - but I am dreadful at typos - and oftewn I will go back to a thread I have posted and correct them, even though there may be other posts since then! - and I can be a bit of a grammar nazi)

or even too slow! (and now every typo I make will be picked up - and it will serve me right! )

Maybe they will, maybe they will not. Who knows?



i'm picky when it comes to food and equal shares. i always tend to pick the biggest one.

[peterb]

Maybe they will, maybe they will not. Who knows?



i'm picky when it comes to food and equal shares. i always tend to pick the biggest one.

[TAKTAK]

There's no full-stop on your sign at the end of the sentence.

[scaryjim]

:awaits inevitable mention of Muphry's Law, and the ensuing argument and wikipedia references...

I'm oddly picky about insignificant things, considering how incredibly disorganised and messy I am in just about every other aspect of my life. But I'm certainly not too picky...

[peterb]

There's no full-stop on your sign at the end of the sentence.

Now you're just being picky!

[chuckskull]

Mistakes in TV shows. Pet hate of mine if you get the facts wrong even in fiction. I will stop watching the entire series and shout at the telly...

[GoNz0]

only a grand on a games PC ?

nah your not picky enough

[samcross]

Hence the fact that I am single